Does Mercurial have an equivalent to git clean?

Question

hg clean does not seem to exist, which kinda bothers me. Is this a feature that Mercurial doesn\'t have or did they just name it differently?

Answer 1

The extension is already included in mercurial, but you still have to activate it.

It's as simple as creating a .hgrc file in your home directory (e.g. Win 7: C:\Users\«yourusername»\.hgrc) and adding the following content to that file:

[extensions] 
purge =

(Home directory is ~/.hgrc for most other desktop operating systems (Unix, Gnu/Linux, Mac osx, BSD, etc.)